Possessed

I’ve actually finished speaking of this, but I’ll remember that for next time.

Who’s pouring tea down your throat and why are you taking it?

Sadly politics isn’t really the place for this discussion either.

Lord Haseo said:

Plus resolution doesn’t really matter for a game that old.

Couldn’t be more wrong about that. Not only do the texture packs make the graphics legitimately HD and detailed, but when you’re playing on a screen that’s plus 60 inches having the graphics generated at a higher resolution (which is much different than upscaling) makes a fuckload of difference.

Here’s something I did up real quick to show this. I don’t have the proportions exactly right, I got the one on the right too small I think but that should actually make it look better. Enhanced texture packs displayed in HD on the left, regular game displayed at N64’s native resolution but resized to the same as the enhanced one. The screenshot I took isn’t a very good example it’s just from the title screen. Not the exact same frame either but close enough.

I mean if you would rather look at the one on the right, that’s your business I guess lol.

Me too, although more than a small part of me wishes I could have kept going and ignorantly drank myself to death.

I just think the increased speed suits it.

And about Deicide: I actually don’t really like them on the whole as a band, it’s just that Legion is such a good album I have to mention them.

If I wanted to pay on a screen that’s a couple inches long sure. But I honestly think the n64 versions with texture packs look better anyway. From what I’ve seen the remakes only upgraded the modes but with the texture packs everything looks beautiful and detailed.

Listen to the song Sadistic Intent by sinister I think you’ll enjoy it. And as for the legion of the famed pestilence cover the song is Chronic infection I prefer it offer original and it has original vocalist.

Happy birthday to me

Tyrphanax said:

Possessed said:

Just got through with a play through of ocarina of time. Damn that game is like a spiritual journey for me. I always have to fight tears at the end. With high definition texture packs and ran at 1080p on project 64 it even looks beautiful.

I’m in the process of acquiring what I need to set up a 120 inch projection screen, and paying this game in hd on it is one of the first things I’m gonna do. It all started when I saw an amazon listing for a used projector that normally runs for about 700 dollars for under 300 used. Native 1080p resolution. Now I’m just going to drop about 45 bucks on a 120 screen and I already have a surround sound system… I’m excited. Probably why I’m talking about it in the wrong thread from getting side tracked.

OOT is a yearly playthrough for me. I love it.

Me as well, Majora’s Mask about every other year too. I like it almost as much, but it’s alot ‘heavier’ so I can’t handle it every year lol. There’s a really good HD texture pack for it too by some guy called Bluedart.

Legion of the Damned did a very good cover of a Pestilence song though. I think they even got pestilence vocalist to come in and do vocals for it.

There are a few smaller death metal bands I like but I’m not a huge straight-death metal fan. And when I’m in the mood for some traditional death metal I usually go for the bigger names because they have a certain"spark" that makes their sound pop to me and most smaller acts bore me. I like Morbid Angel, Deicide, Sinister, the first couple vital remains records, and a few others. I’m much more into melodic death metal. (Kalmah, Insomnium, Children of Bodom, Sateriel, Stuff like that).

I also love black metal as long as the production isn’t shit (a few exceptions to this) and the lyrics/imagery aren’t too cheesy or over the top. Older Mayhem, Antestor, Emperor, Svartsyn, Setheriel, Crimson Moonlight, Behexen.

It wasn’t ever released but I also don’t think it was abandoned, it’s hard to juggle these things with real life.

Just got through with a play through of ocarina of time. Damn that game is like a spiritual journey for me. I always have to fight tears at the end. With high definition texture packs and ran at 1080p on project 64 it even looks beautiful.

I’m in the process of acquiring what I need to set up a 120 inch projection screen, and paying this game in hd on it is one of the first things I’m gonna do. It all started when I saw an amazon listing for a used projector that normally runs for about 700 dollars for under 300 used. Native 1080p resolution. Now I’m just going to drop about 45 bucks on a 120 screen and I already have a surround sound system… I’m excited. Probably why I’m talking about it in the wrong thread from getting side tracked.

RicOlie_2 said:

Tyrphanax said:

Can’t wait to hear what you come up with after going through detox. There’s a lot to tap into there creatively, I imagine.

I haven’t been following many threads lately, but I’m glad to hear you did that, Possessed! Have you quit drinking altogether, or have you just toned it down?

I have quit altogether. They did blood work on me and told me that I was literally less than a year away from dying if I did not stop. I’m winding down from day 22 of not having a drink.

I’m still really good friends with Mary though ;P.

Lord Haseo said:

You’ve never listened to Pestilence, Asphyx or any of the other bands he’s been in? I would be pretty surprised if you haven’t listened to Consuming Impulse. That’s a Death Metal essential.

I’ve heard pestilence and asphyx but never took an interest in them.

I wouldn’t know.

Well it’ll be a while before I do anything I had"come up with" after detox because I literally already had the next two albums planned out so I may record them sober but they already had been planned while drinking.

The CD I’m releasing now was recorded mostly around early 2016 and thus was made entirely under the influence. The next CD which will come out in 17 will have about half the sessions recorded sober and half drunk, won’t reveal what’s what just because that would be too much work lol. But entirely planned under the influence. The next CD after that (probably late 17 or early 18) will be the first recorded entirely sober, as well as most of the tracklist picked sober, but the concept/tone was planned out already. Same with the album after that.

Of course if I run across a song in the meantime that particularly inspires me and I feel it would fit on the album I’m recording now I’ll make it happen.

I’ll be mailing out CD’s on Thursday or Friday. Anybody want to be added to the list? PM me.

Also, the song that I previously shared, “These Walls”, ended up being the last song I ever recorded under the influence of alcohol. I think the tone of the song is quite telling of the pain I was in. I love the result though, the bad place that I was in came out in my playing and it helps with this particular song. It’s not on this CD I’m sending out though yet, it’ll be on the next one that’ll come out sometime in 17.

Wait, so, and I’m not being a smartass our trying to derail the thread, but the schorman releases actually look better than the blu rays? Like seriously? If so then I’ll have to consider using them for my edits, although giving up telecines versions with re done lasers and lightsaber will be hard to ditch.

I miss watching westerns. But they make me want to drink

She’s been here 22 years and was intimidated and bullied out of her job by unethical means. And don’t take the 22 years part as meaning it was time for her to retire because she started working here at 17 and she was an invaluable asset to the company, so nobody knows why this happened. She’s been my best friend for a long time (to the point of taking me to the hospital and sitting with me for hours and even calling my family for me, even though she’s never met them… Which makes
It more pressure to stay sober lol) so I know I’ll still see her but the fact that this even happened is big and illogical and not the sortof thing that’s just going to blow over. I think she could have fought it and stayed, I know I wouldn’t have let it happen to me, but I think she was ready to step down and give up the stress. I wish it could have happened on her terms though.

That doesn’t sound like much fun.

If everything at work hadn’t all the sudden fell apart out of nowhere I’d be fine. I was doing great before that, most of the time anyway.

That’s the thing though I don’t really care anymore. I’m not sure I even ever really did I think I just quit dRinking to make my friends happy anyway. I guess out was as good a strategy as any because the thought of living my last six months being a disappointment to them has been pretty captivating so far. I wish they could just be there for me and let me live my last six months numb, but I know that’s an unreasonable expectation and I would never ask that of them.

I wish I hadn’t made it such an ordeal with all my close friends when I quit drinking so I could drink now without them being mad at me. Btw I still haven’t. Tomorrow will be day 20.